MIKA - The Boy Who Knew Too Much (Special Edition)
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Artist: MIKAEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Special Edition
CD Release Date: 2009-09-22
Music Label: Casablanca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- We Are Golden
- Blame It on the Girls
- Rain
- Dr. John
- I See You
- Blue Eyes
- Good Gone Girl
- Touches You
- By The Time
- One Foot Boy
- Toy Boy
- Pick Up Off The Floor
- We Are Golden - Making of
- We Are Golden (video)
- Documentary - Making of The Parc des Princes Show
- Grace Kelly - Live From Parc Des Princes (video)
- Lollipop - Live From Parc Des Princes (video)
- Love Today - Live From Parc Des Princes (video)
Free Music Notes for The Boy Who Knew Too Much (Special Edition)
Free Music Review: Pure Joy To The Ears!
Hit: 5 Stars
I literally fell upon MIKA one day while surfing the internet about a year back looking for; of all artists; The Scissor Sisters, and saw the video for "Grace Kelly" by someone named MIKA on the sidebar. I was instantly intrigued and so...I clicked. Thank God I did, for if I hadn't I may not have discovered the pure joy of his amazing music.
MIKA's music brings a simplicity, child likeness, yet undeniable depth with it. His songs aren't just extremely catchy or poppy, but are so full of depth, with most telling a little story of some sort. It's great to have this in a world of shallow pop/rock and rap crap music.
His sophomore album, "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", builds on the same fantastic childlike sounds and concepts of his first album "Life In Cartoon Motion". He starts off with a wonderful teen anthem aptly titled "We Are Golden", a cry for acceptance by peers and adults alike. He then gives us a wonderfully addictive little ditty called, "Blame It On The Girls", followed by "Rain", which I LOVE!!! A song about hating the rainy days and longing for the sun. "Dr. John" I'm not quite sure about yet.
Then we come to what I believe MIKA to be the BEST at, and that is his ballads. "I See You", is a hauntingly beautiful song about, feeling invisible in relationships. His classic training in piano comes into full swing here as he shows us just how dang good he is on those slick ivory keys.
"Blue Eyes" is a fantastic song with a wonderful almost reggae type tune to it. And "Good Gone Girl" is a sad story wrapped in a fun sounding sticky sweet pop song. At the half way point we get to my three favorite songs. First, is the George Michaelesque "Touches You" which has such an addictive chorus you'll be repeating it over and over again in the car. 'I wanna be your brother, wanna be your father too; won't let you run for cover even if they want us to. I wanna be your sister, wanna be your mother too, I wanna be, wanna be whatever else that touches you.' After that is my FAVORITE song on the album, "By The Time", such a sad and emotional ballad put into such a mellow and relaxing song. 'Don't wake up, won't wake up, can't wake up, no...don't wake me up'. The song is so beautiful and the lyrics tells such a sad yet well known story in today's age. Then lastly, "One Foot Boy" is very different from anything MIKA has done previously. His pop has always been straight up pop, but this song has such a heavy almost hip/hop groove flair to it, yet it works so well.
"Toy Boy" takes the album into a very different direction up to the end. Giving the album more of a jazzy/blues flavor, with MIKA's ever presence funny coups and puns thrown in. "Pick Up Off The Floor", is a fantastic blues ballad and a sad story as well. "Lover Boy" and "Lady Jane" wrap up the album with more clever depth and quirkiness. "Lady Jane" being a strange; and I do mean STRANGE song, about a girl who falls for a man and ends up mutilating herself and becoming a fish...yeah...a fish...but for MIKA, it works.
MIKA's voice, I could only describe as a male version of Mariah Carey. He is able to hit very low registers but is best know for hit a very high tenor, or is it high alto for guys, I'm not sure. He has a beautiful voice and a fantastic ability at writing. His cleverness and originality is undeniable and if he ever decided NOT to do music I'm sure he could have a career as a children's author.
Pick up both albums since they are both shining examples of what MAINSTREAM music could be, if people could put their clothes on and focus on the music and not the nudity, profanity or oneupmanship that has become today's music industry. "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" is definitely worth being in your collection.
Best songs:
"Touches You"
"By The Time"
"One Foot Boy"
"Pick Up Off The Floor"
"Rain"
The Boy Who Knew Too Much (Special Edition) Poster
Deluxe version includes a 70 minute DVD, which includes documentary content of the Parc des Princes show in Paris along with live video performances from that show. The DVD also includes the official video for "We Are Golden" and the Making of "We Are Golden".Alternative Rock Music CDs
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